🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐾
Fin whale
Balaenoptera physalus
Marine mammals · Vulnerable
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Fin whale outweighs Cow 52× — 38,800 kg against 750 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
38,800 kg
🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🐾 Fin whale
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
18 m
🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
116 yr
🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 46 million years ago.
Estimates range from 40 to 55 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).